Contradictions and Paradoxes in Numbers 21:11

Check out Contradictions Catalog of Numbers 21:11 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts Numbers 21:11. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to Moses, this verse tells us about the Israelites moving and setting up camp in a new place during their long journey through the desert. They stopped to rest in a spot that was near Moab, which is where the sun rises.

Numbers 21:11: And they journeyed from Oboth, and pitched at Ijeabarim, in the wilderness which [is] before Moab, toward the sunrising. [Ijeabarim: or, heaps of Abarim]

Contradiction with Genesis 12:1

This verse speaks about God instructing Abram to leave his country, which contrasts with Numbers 21:11 where the Israelites are seen journeying to a specific place under God's guidance.

Genesis 12:1: Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee:

Contradiction with Exodus 3:8

It mentions God promising to bring the Israelites to a good land, while Numbers 21:11 describes them as wandering in the wilderness and not yet in that promised land.

Exodus 3:8: And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.

Contradiction with Deuteronomy 12:9

This states that the Israelites have not yet come to the rest and inheritance God is giving them, which contradicts with the notion of setting camps like in Numbers 21:11.

Deuteronomy 12:9: For ye are not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance, which the LORD your God giveth you.

Contradiction with Hebrews 11:8-10

Abraham is depicted as dwelling in tents, symbolizing a transient life by faith, whereas Numbers 21:11 describes the Israelites' physical journey with more defined stops.

Hebrews 11:8-10: By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.
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